Places bauer2x4 Wants to Go

270 million year-old forest of stone.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."

Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.

The shipyards along the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital are a flurry dangerous boat breaking and rebuilding.

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.

Where giant ships go to die.

Museum dedicated to overthrowing the Soviets, complete with diorama of Soviets being beaten to death with shovels.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.